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Quantum Ergodicity for Point Scatterers on Arithmetic Tori

Analysis of PDEs 2014-03-24 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Number Theory Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

We prove an analogue of Shnirelman, Zelditch and Colin de Verdiere's Quantum Ergodicity Theorems in a case where there is no underlying classical ergodicity. The system we consider is the Laplacian with a delta potential on the square torus. There are two types of wave functions: old eigenfunctions of the Laplacian, which are not affected by the scatterer, and new eigenfunctions which have a logarithmic singularity at the position of the scatterer. We prove that a full density subsequence of the new eigenfunctions equidistribute in phase space. Our estimates are uniform with respect to the coupling parameter, in particular the equidistribution holds for both the weak and strong coupling quantizations of the point scatterer.

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@article{arxiv.1311.1396,
  title  = {Quantum Ergodicity for Point Scatterers on Arithmetic Tori},
  author = {Henrik Ueberschaer and Par Kurlberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.1396},
  year   = {2014}
}

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22 pages, 1 figure, Geom. Funct. Anal. (GAFA) to appear

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